WAICU partners with Husch Blackwell to provide compliance auditing for members at three levels of participation, as well as discounted rates for other legal services.

For more than a century, Husch Blackwell has been committed to the advancement of knowledge. Their Education law team has built a reputation as a leader in representing public and private institutions at all levels of learning, from preschool through graduate and professional education.

Husch Blackwell advises clients on civil rights issues, technology, employment, land use transactions, student affairs, and myriad other issues. Based on their thorough understanding of each institution’s unique culture and operations, they recommend actions that advance each client’s goals. Husch Blackwell also serve as primary outside counsel and first point of legal contact to many educational institutions.

Husch Blackwell also represents more than 250 higher education institutions, providing compliance, operations, and litigation legal services. Their team includes former in-house counsel at educational institutions, major corporations, and government agencies, such as the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice. They regularly advise colleges and universities on student affairs, collegiate athletics and NCAA compliance, Title IX, Title IV, labor and employment matters, and corporate transactions.

Core Education, a public benefit corporation, is WAICU’s exclusive partner for business model transformation and a long-term, mission-critical operating partner of colleges and universities. The Core-WAICU agreement allows WAICU-member institutions to enhance their business models through a unique operating partnership designed to leverage economies of scale to improve revenue, technology, and operating effectiveness. Core has established a market-leading platform of transformative business model solutions, including revenue growth and diversification, digital campus transformation, managed technology services, workflow optimization, institutional research, financial planning and modeling, and capital strategies.

Core believes transformation isn’t a series of fragmented projects. Rather, transformation takes place within a comprehensive institutional operating architecture. The modern institution comprises a set of interconnected “engines” that convert mission into motion, vision into velocity, and capacity into sustained performance. Core helps schools identify where to start and how to connect transformation efforts within each engine to the greater architecture.  Start anywhere and evolve.

The Engines of the Institutional Operating Architecture

1. Growth & Transformation (Strategic Expansion)
2. Strategic Cost (Capital Efficiency)
3. Brand (Identity and Trust)
4. Academic Portfolio (Learning and Market Alignment)
5. Leadership (Governance and Talent Architecture)
6. Real Estate (Asset and Capital Strategy)
7. ERP (Digital Backbone)
8. Analytics (Institutional Intelligence)
9. AI (Adaptive and Self-Learning Operations)
10. MAP (Structural Partnerships)

To contact WAICU about the program, email collaboration.info@waicu.org.